Transcript Kalahari Resorts Daylene Stroebe General Manager In the middle of rural Wisconsin the Kalahari Resort in Wisconsin Dells serves nearly one million visitors a.

Kalahari Resorts
Daylene Stroebe
General Manager
In the middle of rural Wisconsin the Kalahari
Resort in Wisconsin Dells serves nearly one
million visitors a year
Midwest’s largest Resort and
Conference Center
1,200 peak season and 990 year round employees
760 Hotel rooms and suites
Requires 3 shifts and a Housekeeping staff of 220 associates
125,000 sq foot
indoor waterpark
50,000 sq foot
outdoor waterpark
Staff consists of 250 Lifeguards,
Supervisors, Maintenance Personnel.
Park Cleaners, Trainers and full time
EMT’s.
The 50 associates in our laundry facility wash, dry
and fold over 3 million pool towels every year
100,000 sq foot Indoor Theme Park
The park is home to a high ropes course, gocart track, 6 story ferris wheel, rock climbing
wall, laser tag, mini golf a 24 lane bowling alley
and more…
Requires 88
attraction
attendants
There are 10 full service food and beverage
operations within the Kalahari Resort
166
Servers, bartenders, bussers,
dishwashers, supervisors, barista’
and cooks
Full service Spa and Salon open 365 days
Full service Spa and Salon open 365 days a year
125,000 sq foot Conference Center
2 giant ballrooms, 35 meeting rooms and 3000
free parking spaces
Kalahari plays host to trade shows, conventions, weddings,
tournaments and a wide variety of meetings
A staff of 122 associates are a part of the set-up/tear down, catering
and event coordination, A/V Technician, server, culinary, cleaning,
business center and group sales team.
Kalahari employs 1,200 associates
 Wisconsin
Dells hosts over 5 million
guests every year
 There are over 8,000 Hotel rooms
 (#20 on list of top 100 cities with most
hotel/motels)
 Wisconsin Dells has 2,468 residents.
Including the surrounding communities this
number increases to just 23,000
#1 Challenge in rural areas with tourism?
Limited employee pool
One of the solutions…
Utilizing immigrant labor
Moving beyond the myth’s…
“Immigrants steal jobs from Americans”
“You hire immigrants so you can use them as cheap labor”
Entry level $8.00-$11.00
Advanced $12.00-$18.00
“Immigrants are a drain on US social programs”
Encouraging a multi-cultural environment
Creating career
paths and
advancement
opportunities